An old feisty street seller and his poor family fight for their right to make a living as local authorities demand their relocation in this engrossing, and at times, hilarious documentary filmed in pre-COVID Wuhan.
There are richly-realised characters and performances in this layered drama about depression, centering on a family who can’t seem to communicate with each other, but it doesn’t quite come together in a resonating way by its denouement.
This rarely-seen Argentinian feature debut by Hugo Santiago is an unclassifiable eye-opener—a political ‘sci-fi’ piece with cool Melville crime-thriller vibes.
Godard’s anarchic work of gleeful nihilism is not just a challenging treatise on the corruption and destruction of bourgeois values, but one of his most essential films about the end of civility and civilisation.
The plot may involve repetition, but the dramatic power of its execution sees Zhang return close to the form of his early 1990s works.
A decades-spanning Brazilian melodrama about two sisters separated from each other—while it’s lushly-filmed and features strong performances, its repetitive nature and an underwhelming finale stop it from being a memorable film.
A surprisingly uneven film with a lack of character and historical focus on 1937 Nanking.
From theatre to screen, this Italian tale of five sisters is emotionally vacant in its treatment of grief over time.
Jodorowsky’s notorious debut feature seems to show us a burgeoning surrealist-visualist already fully-formed, but one couldn’t care any less for his meandering storytelling or impenetrable characters.
With bizarre artifice and sheer ingenuity, Jodorowsky’s second autobiographical film celebrates life and art.
Eternality Tan 